Using an encyclopedia, the internet, or other resource, write a 300-word biography (does not have to be 300 words) about each of : john c. calhoun henry clay, robert hayne, andrew jackson, and daniel webster (you can do one of them or all of them does not matter)

Andrew Jackson:

Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region between North Carolina and South Carolina. Jackson was elected as the seventh president of the United States in 1828. Known as the “people's president,” Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States, founded the Democratic Party, supported individual liberty, and instituted policies that resulted in the forced migration of Native Americans. Jackson was the first president to invite the public to attend the inauguration ball at the White House, which quickly earned him popularity. The crowd was so large that furniture and dishes were broken in the process of everyone trying to catch a glimpse of the new president. The event earned Jackson the nickname “King Mob.”

Although Jackson lacked Military experience, he was appointed a major general of the Tennessee militia in 1802. During the War of 1812, he led the U.S troops on a five-month campaign against the British allied Creek Indians, who had massacred hundreds of settlers at Fort Mims in present-day Alabama. The campaign came to an end with Jackson’s victory at the Battle of the Horseshoe Bend in March 1814, which resulted in the killing of 800 warriors and the eventual achievement by the United States of 20 million acres of land in present-day Georgia and Alabama. After this military success, the U.S promoted Jackson to major general. Without specific instructions, Jackson led his forces into the Spanish territory of Florida and captured the outpost of Pensacola in November 1814, before pursuing British troops to New Orleans. Following weeks of skirmishes in December 1814, the two sides clashed on January 8th, 1815. Although outnumbered the nearly two-to-one, Jackson led 5,000 soldiers to an unexpected victory over the British in the battle of New Orleans, the last major engagement of the War of 1812.

Daniel Webster:

Daniel Webster, on January 18th, 1782, in Salisbury, New Hampshire was born. Webster was the ninth of 10 children of Ebenezer Webster, a veteran of the American Revolution, farmer, and a tavern keeper. As Webster grew older, he attended classes at the various houses where the schoolmaster boarded in succession around the township. At 14, he spent part of a year at Phillips Exeter Academy, and at 15, he entered Dartmouth College, where he excelled at public speaking. In 1807, he married Grace Fletcher, a clergyman’s daughter, and soon became a prominent member of the thriving seaport’s distinguished bar. Webster identified his own interests with those of the Portsmouth shipowners, and merchants who had been prospering through trade with Great Britain and France, despite the occasional seizures of American ships by both warring powers. The Portsmouth businessmen objected to the federal government's effort to retaliate by limiting and even stopping overseas commerce, and, as their spokesman, Webster denounced the Jefferson administration’s embargo as unconstitutional; he also opposed the declaration of war against Great Britain in 1812.

That same year he was elected to the national house of representatives as a member of the conservative pro-British Federalist Party, they favored a strong, centralized government and encouragement of commerce. He was twice re-elected in 1814 and 1816. In congress, he resisted the passage of practically all war measures, including a conscription bill, which was voted down. Against conscription he took an extreme states-rights position, even hinting at nullification of federal laws when he said the state governments had a solemn duty to “interpose between their citizens and arbitrary power.” In 1816, Webster moved with his wife and two children to the more metropolis part of Boston. Soon after, he represented the city’s leading businessmen in the law courts and, from 1823 to 1827, again in the national House of Representatives. He went on to become one of the most highly paid lawyers in the entire country.

 He was a United States politician from South Carolina during the 1st half of the nineteenth century. Calhoun was the first Vice President to resign from office (served as VP in the Adams and Jackson Administration)... he resigned to become a member of the Senate. and was known as an advocate of slavery, states rights, a limited federal government, and nullification (nullification is the belief that the states should have the right to deem a federal law unconstitutional). Calhoun was a major inspiration to the secessionists who caused the Civil War (he was dead during the Civil War period, he was only an inspiration).

He also served in the United States House of Representatives and was Secretary of War under James Monroe and Secretary of State under John Tyler.

According to Churchill, Britain's position in the world greatly declined after World War II, since Britain had by this time lost much of its empire, and the United States had become the most dominant power in the west.